Gethesmane is the site of the agony in the garden, where Christ was arrested the night before his crucifixion and is considered the first station of the cross. This is where Christ went to pray, knowing his betrayal, and his inevitable doom. "My Father, if it I possible, let this cup pass me by" he prayed out of fear. "If this cup cannot pass by, but I must drink it, Your will be done!". This is. prayer of courage and acceptance, with a prelude of a bargaining prayer, a foxhole prayer, that is uttered by many when they are undone. The garden of Gethesmane is the eye of the hurricane, the calm space wrecked with the anxiety of chaos circling around it. The eye will pass us by, and we will enter the maelstrom. The uncontrollable, inevitable force that engulfs indiscriminately any object found in its path. We speak the prayers many times, in different iterations, with our own fear as leverage in a negotiation with an entity that wants nothing and takes all. Christ became one with the eye, the space within the storm. He held the cup in his hands and traded it for nails. Gethesmane was his agony, as it was where his fate was revealed, but it was also where he had gone many times to pray. It was why he went there in the end. Christ's experiences are a reflection of the human experience, and that is why they hold such commonality. The moral of Gethesmane is acceptance and mortality. Learning how to accept events beyond our control and to move forward is a spiritual action by a spiritual person.